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Collecting Toys Magazine 1994 August Matchbox Racers Rare Marx Playset Dinky tow
Collecting Toys Magazine 1994 August Matchbox Racers
Collecting Toys Magazine is published bimonthly.
Contents
22 Marx's Sabre sports car
by H. A. Ferme
Discovering a factory prototype at a Sotheby's London auction
24 Matchbox goes racing
by Jim Bunte
Lesney's 1950s and '60s racers are today's affordable collectibles
32 Gang of Five
by Catherine Saunders-Watson
Masudaya's desirableand rectangularbattery-operated robots
38 Hey taxi!
by Diane L. Oswald
Arcade began their cast-iron journey with a Yellow Cab ride
42 The ultimate collecting experience
by George Hall
Bob Blake has thousands of toys, but awaits the few that elude him
50 It's all in the packaging
by Gary J. Linden
Marx's smallest army playset lost its battle with the 1950s toy market
52 Hooked on Dinky tow trucks
by Tom Sanchirico
Meccano's wreckers rescued decades of distressed Dinkys
56 A force to be reckoned with
TOYS visits Playmates Toys, the upstart manufacturer that redefined today's superheated action figure market
62 Making things right
by Jim Bunte
Classic Tin Toy Company and the art of toy restoration
82 Smoking gun theory
by Steven K. Ryan
The amazing saga of Lucky Smoke Gun
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